Welcome to the Captain's Blog. These are my highlights of being principal of MAST Academy, Miami-Dade County Public School's Maritime and Science Technology High School. I welcome any questions or feedback from parents, students, and visitors. Please post your comments and questions using the comments link at the bottom of each post. I look forward hearing from and beginning conversations with the entire MAST family, past, present, and future.

MAST Mission Statement

MAST Academy provides a marine setting and a nurturing environment for studies leading to academic success, career preparation, an appreciation of the sea, and environmental awareness. Stakeholders work together to instill a commitment to life-long learning and to advance and improve a challenging curriculum integrated with sciences and technology.

MAST Academy Pages

Monday, October 12, 2009

Today MAST launched its Laptop Checkout Program and Wireless Key Contracts for any and all students interested in getting themselves some additional computing power while at school. Both contracts are available in the media center or under the MAST Academy Links on the left hand side the Captain's Blog. Before a student is able to access these two programs they must return a completed contract that has been signed by the student and a parent (even students 18 and older must have a parent signature). Ms. Van Smith, Ms. Iudica, and Ms. Pierce wil be available during lunch periods to help with any questions.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

MAST Academy's Magnet Open House for Recruitment will be held at MAST on Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 9am until 12:00 noon. Please take the time to come see what MAST is all about and have any questions you might have answered. Spread the word! See you there!

MAST ePublications via Yudu

Captain's Book Shelf

Interesting Quotes

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

- F. H. Burnett, 1911, The Secret Garden.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly becuse we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.

- Aristotle

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.